The Land and the Book: Or, Biblical Illustrations Drawn from the Manners and Customs, the Scenes and Scenery, of the Holy LandT. Nelson, 1869 - 718 pages |
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... . These almost innumerable excursions are not imaginary , but real ; and the results , so far as they bear on Biblical Illustration , appear in the current narrative . The INTRODUCTION . xvii " conversations , " also , are.
... . These almost innumerable excursions are not imaginary , but real ; and the results , so far as they bear on Biblical Illustration , appear in the current narrative . The INTRODUCTION . xvii " conversations , " also , are.
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... appear till some other race than the Arab predominates , and a better than the Turk governs . Even the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon , where good roads are most needed , have no adequate appreciation of them , and take no pains to ...
... appear till some other race than the Arab predominates , and a better than the Turk governs . Even the Christian inhabitants of Lebanon , where good roads are most needed , have no adequate appreciation of them , and take no pains to ...
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... appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or it is borrowed . Then , by a strange perversity of manners , or silly ... appear in their assemblies with their heads covered and their faces veiled . The men , on the contrary , should be ...
... appears to be hair is either silk imitation , or it is borrowed . Then , by a strange perversity of manners , or silly ... appear in their assemblies with their heads covered and their faces veiled . The men , on the contrary , should be ...
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... appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . She is held inviolate by a sensitive and most jealous public ... appear unveiled before the " angel " with that entire composure which becomes the house of God . Such will wear the ...
... appears anywhere and everywhere in perfect safety . She is held inviolate by a sensitive and most jealous public ... appear unveiled before the " angel " with that entire composure which becomes the house of God . Such will wear the ...
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... appear like an island to one sailing up from Sidon . The surface rises gradually from the south to the immediate vicinity of the city , where it is about three hundred feet above the sea . Thence it falls rapidly down toward the ...
... appear like an island to one sailing up from Sidon . The surface rises gradually from the south to the immediate vicinity of the city , where it is about three hundred feet above the sea . Thence it falls rapidly down toward the ...
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Acre allusions ancient Arabs Baalbek Banias beautiful Bedawîn Beirût Beisan Beit Bethsaida Bible built Cæsarea called Capernaum Carmel castle cave CHAPTER cisterns columns custom David desert doubt east Egypt entire Esdraelon fact flocks gate Gaza Gennesaret Hamath Hazor Hebrew Hebron Hermon hills Holy hour Hûleh hundred feet inhabitants Israel Jacob Jaffa Jaulan Jerusalem Jews Jordan Josephus Joshua Kenites king lake land Lebanon Lord Lydd mentioned miles Moses Moslems mountains Naphtali neighbourhood never night north-west olive Oriental Palestine pass Philistines plain probably prophet Ramleh region ride river road rock round ruins sacred says scene seen sepulchres sheikh shore side Sidon Sisera Solomon south-east stone suppose Syria Tell temple tent terebinth thing thou thousand Tiberias tion tombs travellers trees tribes Tyre unto valley vast village Wady wall whole wild wind Zion